Yes, LightScribe already has colour, but only two, black and greyscale. Ok, so you'd get only 9 colours maximum, who cares, it will soon improve, no? Apparently the future LightScribe will have 9 dyed heads of different colours per square pixel of colour trace. The LightScribe will change the dye of one of the dyed heads in one trace pixel, and make the dye react into its proper colour, therefore colouring that pixel. The similiar principle is achieved in LCD screens, where 64 colour Liquid Crystal bulbs/Diodes exist per pixel. The canvas of the disc has to be white or black for a better pigmentation. Colours include: Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Purple, Orange, Black/White, Grey, and Pink. No too bad, but the thing is, unlike LCD screens the colour pigmentation will not glow, thus if you look very close you can see the background colour of the absent coloured heads, this makes the picture printed look strange. LightScribe is trying multiple strategies to overcome this, but there are still rumours and real news about LightScribe using another method, using a material the changes colour depending on the colour of the laser, however the material soon enough fades within about 30 minutes in tests, but the question is what is the material. We'll just have to wait... My idea: May be it would be cool to have a disc that has an actual full colour LCD screen as the label, that is powered sensitively by light, especially solar. That'd be cool. My colour screen calculator has this feature.
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Yes, LightScribe already has colour, but only two, black and greyscale.
Ok, so you'd get only 9 colours maximum, who cares, it will soon improve, no?
Apparently the future LightScribe will have 9 dyed heads of different colours per square pixel of colour trace.
The LightScribe will change the dye of one of the dyed heads in one trace pixel, and make the dye react into its proper colour, therefore colouring that pixel. The similiar principle is achieved in LCD screens, where 64 colour Liquid Crystal bulbs/Diodes exist per pixel.
The canvas of the disc has to be white or black for a better pigmentation.
Colours include: Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Purple, Orange, Black/White, Grey, and Pink.
No too bad, but the thing is, unlike LCD screens the colour pigmentation will not glow, thus if you look very close you can see the background colour of the absent coloured heads, this makes the picture printed look strange.
LightScribe is trying multiple strategies to overcome this, but there are still rumours and real news about LightScribe using another method, using a material the changes colour depending on the colour of the laser, however the material soon enough fades within about 30 minutes in tests, but the question is what is the material. We'll just have to wait...
My idea: May be it would be cool to have a disc that has an actual full colour LCD screen as the label, that is powered sensitively by light, especially solar. That'd be cool. My colour screen calculator has this feature.